Katherine Hijar
Assistant Professor of History
Education
Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University, 2008
B.A. with High Honors, University of California, Berkeley, 2001
Research and Teaching Interests:
United States Social & Cultural History
History of Women, Gender, & Sexuality
History of Racial Formation
Urban History
Digital History
Selected Honors and Awards
Baltimore Museum of Art-JHU Graduate Curatorial Fellowship Award (2006-2007)
Co-recipient, JHU Technology Fellowship Award,
(with Prof. Ronald G. Walters and John Astin, 2006-2007)
Mary Catherine Mooney Fellowship, Boston Athenaeum (2005-2006)
Dean's Teaching Fellowship, The Johns Hopkins University (2005-2006)
Prize Teaching Fellowship, Program for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, The Johns Hopkins University (2004)
American Historical Print Collectors Society Fellowship,
American Antiquarian Society (2004)
Selected Presentations
Panel Chair and Organizer, “The Campus Visit: Strategies for Success in the Campus Interview Process,” Sponsored by the AHA Graduate and Early Career Committee, American Historical Association Annual Meeting, January 2010
Panelist, Roundtable panel: “Whither History Ph.D. Programs? The Education of Historians Report after Five Years,” Sponsored by the AHA Research and Publications Division,
American Historical Association Annual Meeting, January 2010
“Manly Rule and Middle-Class Femininity in Henry Bebie’s Nineteenth-Century Baltimore Brothel Paintings,” Panel: “Male Spaces,” Conference: Destined for Men: Visual Materials for Male Audiences, 1750-1880, Center for the History of American Visual Culture (CHAViC), American Antiquarian Society, October 2009
"Seeing and Being Seen: Urban Male Voyeurism and Spectacles of Femininity,"
Panel: “The Spectacle of Gender in the Early Republic,”
Australian & New Zealand American Studies Association Conference, July 2008
“Looking at Prints as Historical Evidence: The Challenges of Bringing the Historian’s Vision into the Public Eye,"
Roundtable Panel: "Gender and Visual Culture: Assessing Current Methodologies,” Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, June 2008
"The Ann Murphy Rape Case: Violence, Sexual Intimacy, and Gender Identities in Antebellum Print Culture,"
Roundtable panel: "Gender Trouble"
Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, July 2006.
Service:
Member, Faculty Center Advisory Committee
California State University, San Marcos (2010-2012)
Member, Graduate and Early Career Committee (GECC)
American Historical Association (2008-2010)
Member, Committee on Women Historians
American Historical Association (2008-2010)
Member, Affiliate Board, Program for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
The Johns Hopkins University (2002-05)
Katherine Hijar is a member of the AHA Graduate and Early Career Committee and the AHA Committee on Women, and has served as a member of the affiliate board for the JHU Program for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. Dr. Hijar has received funding for her work from various private organizations, and her interest in public history led her to a year-long curatorial fellowship at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Before coming to San Marcos, she taught courses at Johns Hopkins and the Maryland Institute College of Art.
In her research and teaching, Dr. Hijar specializes in U.S. social and cultural history, with an emphasis on histories of women, gender, and race, social relations, visual culture, and early mass media. She is the sole curator of an online exhibit of prints at the American Antiquarian Society, "Beauty, Virtue, and Vice: Nineteenth-century American Womanhood in Prints" <www.americanantiquarian.org/Exhibitions/Beauty/>. She is currently at work on her book manuscript, which is provisionally titled, “Sexuality, Print, and Popular Visual Culture in the United States, 1830-1870."
